As the years of intensive research and development went by, and with the birth of

several new conferences and workshops such as IWFHR (International Workshop

on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition),1 ICDAR (International Conference on

Document Analysis and Recognition),2 and others [8], recognition techniques

advanced rapidly. Moreover, computers became much more powerful than before.

People could write theway they normally did, and characters need not have to be written

like specified models, and the subject of unconstrained handwriting recognition

gained considerable momentum and grew quickly. As of now, many new algorithms

and techniques in preprocessing, feature extraction, and powerful classification methods

have been developed [8, 9]. Further details can be found in the following chapters